The 4th Fabio's Fantasy Tour started with a bang. And with one player arguably setting a new record as he had all Top 5 finishers in the stage ranking in his Virtual Team roster. Indeed Fabian Cancellara, Lance Armstrong, Spain's José Iván Gutiérrez, prologue specialist Brad McGee and Thor Hushovd earned Mr. Andrew Cook and his "COOKERS" the sensational score of 104, and the Prologue stage victory.

The American contender, not a newbie to our Fantasy Games, edged out another veteran player. 2002 Fantasy Vuelta winner Terence Sexton, by a 14-point margin. Unlike Cook, Mr. Sexton also had one trade team (USPS) able to score points, as well as riders like Spain's Oscar Pereiro Sio. But Sexton didn't pick Cook's winning choices Gutiérrez and Hushovd, and that's why the man couldn't clinch victory this time.

Wheras in many previous games they had to wait several days in order to grab their first stage win, American competitors dominated the Fantasy Tour opener this time, taking all top 7 places in the prologue standings. Even without Pereiro Sio in the line-up, Tom McDonald and his "Mad Men" filled the remaining top 3 spot, while the absence of Fassa and/or USPS in the roster costed Hilary Page's Snowwhite's Dream Team a possible podium place. Norway's Julius Casar finished seventh, and was the only non-American in the top 20 places (better, top 22, as the following non-U.S. contender was 23rd place getter Mars Abantao of the Philippines).

Last year's winner Andrew Titman of the UK did not enter his team this year, while 2003 Fantasy Tour runner-up (and 2001 champion) Jan Dijkstra did, and finished in the middle of the pack Saturday, in spot #199, with 20 points scored. More than 60 Virtual Teams didn't get any points in the prologue. Patrick B. Sharp was the last player to enter his team, and is the first "Lanterne Rouge" of the 2004 Fabio's Fantasy Tour.